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EXCLUSIVE: Ambitious art-house movie streaming platform MUBI continues to make waves after the pickup of Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria with the UK acquisition of David Robert Mitchell’s Cannes head-trip mystery Under The Silver Lake. The deal was struck between MUBI and MadRiver Pictures. As it is doing with Suspiria…

EXCLUSIVE: Hiro Murai is in talks at 20th Century Fox to make his feature directorial debut on Man Alive, the thriller that was bought as a spec script by Joe Greenberg and has a rewrite by David Robert Mitchell (It Follows). Man Alive covers the events following the invasion of earth by an alien species, when a man…

Keep an eye out for odd symbols dotted throughout, and keep an ear on the bird; there’s a secret mystery for the audience alone to solve sewn into the fabric of David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake, which premiered in Cannes’ official competition last night, and the director tells Deadline all the clues are…

David Robert Mitchell’s contemporary fever-dream thriller, Under The Silver Lake, is the latest from the writer/director of 2015 horror pic It Follows and 2010’s The Myth Of The American Sleepover. Andrew Garfield stars in the neo-noir story of a man searching for the truth behind the mysterious crimes, murders and…

EXCLUSIVE: Zosia Mamet, Jimmi Simpson and Patrick Fischler and Luke Baines have been cast in David Robert Mitchell's Under the Silver Lake, the crime thriller that stars Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, and Topher Grace. Production has begun on the film, with Callie Hernandez (La La Land), Riki Lindome (The Dramatics: A…

Ambitious U.S. distrib A24 has nabbed domestic rights to David Robert Mitchell’s Under The Silver Lake, with Andrew Garfield attached to star. Deal is believed to be north of $3 million. It marks A24’s second splashy acquisition in as many days after it picked up U.S. rights to Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred…

Andrew Garfield has been attached to star in Under The Silver Lake, a modern noir crime thriller set in Los Angeles that is written and to be directed by David Robert Mitchell, who is making this his follow-up to his 2015 fantasy horror pic It Follows. Michael De Luca is producing this under his Michael De Luca…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed filmmaker David Robert Mitchell. Mitchell's first feature, The Myth Of The American Sleepover, premiered at SXSW in 2010 and won the Special Jury Prize. His follow-up It Follows, which he wrote, directed and produced, was one of the best reviewed horror films in recent years following its…

EXCLUSIVE: After helping to hatch the MI6 formation story Section 6 that Universal will make with Joe Cornish directing and Jack O’Connell starring, and doing it again on a Winter’s Knight sale to Sony that got Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales helmers Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg attached to…

It Follows writer/director David Robert Mitchell is making his first foray into TV. Universal Cable Prods and Benderspink are developing his crime series Mr. Postman. It follows a mailman who investigates the dark mysteries within his all-American town after a horrific event occurs on his own street. Mitchell is set…

David Robert Mitchell’s horror film It Follows has been such a sensation in its limited release over the last two weekends, that RADiUS and Dimension Films are now going wide with the film in 1,200 theaters. Originally, the film was scheduled for VOD this coming Friday, however, given its success the distributor has…

The RADiUS indie thriller It Follows found lots of audience members tracking it into theaters in its debut weekend, opening in four locations to 2015’s best limited-release debut so far, at nearly $41,000 per theater. The strong numbers are all the more impressive given the relatively crowded box office. Among other…